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RichTerra Corp. (RTC) provides onshore contract drilling services with a commendable fleet of land-based drilling rigs that operate primarily within North & South America, Africa, China and India. We provide not only the drilling rig, but also a host of special drilling techniques and applications designed to help you achieve better drilling results and greater cost efficiencies.

 

RTC Drilling team is performance-oriented, providing technologically superior equipment, strong industry experience, a safe working environment, and highest quality service to our clients & partners in the natural resource industry. RTC delivers a fully integrated drilling system using modern technology and extensive oilfield experience.

 

RTC also offers a full line of complementary rental services that supplement and support our field services.

We have continued to expand our rig fleet and enhanced the quality and versatility of our rigs by upgrading and/or acquiring specialized rigs that we can reconfigure for new drilling applications and customized solutions. We also engineer and custom build our own rigs in China to accommodate the drilling needs of wells in different operational areas according to our client’s requirements.

 

RTC is committed towards drilling efficiency, work safety, and satisfaction of our client. We are guided by the following principles:

  1. Our employees are our greatest asset.
  2. Safety is our foremost responsibility, and
  3. Operational excellence is our work ethic.

 

It is our practice to always employ fit-for-purpose, automated, reliable equipment that utilizes the latest technologies which helps us in delivering results to our clients & partners in tough, challenging & demanding drilling projects..

RTC Dirctional Drilling Services  

RTC Directional provides its customers with significant cost-saving solutions for their drilling and production testing programs.

 

The services of RichTerra Directional are highlighted by four inter-related service groups:

  1. Horizontal and Directional Drilling Services
  2. Measurement While Drilling Services
  3. Downhole Tools
  4. Completions & Production Testing Services  (link with completions and production testing)

 

RTC  Directional strives to provide its clients with value-added technologies and solutions to meet their drilling and completions requirements. Our standard is to provide exceptional service, innovative equipment and quality personnel to our clients. Our success has been reflected in the quality of our people, our innovative technology and the satisfaction of our customers. We apply competent and efficient service with sophisticated equipment throughout each stage in the drilling to production cycle.

 

Horizaontal vs Dirctional Drilling  

Horizontal and Directional Drilling vs. Conventional Drilling

Horizontal drilling involves drilling a lateral horizontally off of the vertical wellbore. Directional drilling is the controlled drilling of a wellbore to a prescribed bottom hole location. Both horizontal and directional drilling require the use of downhole mud motors (powered hydraulically by drilling fluid to allow for rotation of the drill bit with little or no rotation of the drill string) to alter the course of a wellbore to hit a specified drilling target. Horizontal and directional drilling operations require two distinct systems to steer the drill bit below the earth's surface to a predetermined target: a positive-displacement downhole mud motor and measurement while drilling ("MWD") technology.

 

Horizontal and Directional Drilling

When drilling a vertical well, the wellbore is drilled straight down until the oil or natural gas reservoir is reached. Vertical drilling is most efficient when reservoir pressure is high and the formation has high permeability. Conventional drilling is not always the most economic approach given factors such as restricted surface access, geology, reservoir pressure and present value considerations. Horizontal and directional drilling does not compete with or take the place of conventional vertical drilling rig operations. By virtue of the increased productivity and economics associated with horizontal and directional drilling techniques, conventional drill rig utilization levels are actually enhanced.

 

Benefits of Horizontal and Directional Drilling

Improved Access

The use of horizontal and directional drilling equipment allows for access to previously unattainable bottom hole targets.

Increased Economic Performance

Increased production is achieved through the increased exposure of the reserves to the producing wellbore, especially in reservoirs with low permeability and porosity.

 

Measurement While Drilling ("MWD")   

Measurement While Drilling ("MWD") systems are installed in the drill string to provide real time measurements of basic trajectory parameters such as inclination, direction, tool-face and temperature. Additional sensors such as pressure, gamma-ray and resistivity may be added depending upon the specific application.

 

RTC's Electropulse WMD

The new ELECTROPULSE MWD System advances MWD technology by combining the best of RichTerra Directional’s existing MWD systems with new technologies that enhance performance and provide operators with additional options not found on standard systems. The ELECTROPULSE MWD System provides both electromagnetic ("EM") and positive pulse ("P+") telemetry option, as well as Logging while drilling ("LWD") capabilities including not only gamma ray, but also the latest in resistivity tool technology.

 

Electromagnetic Systems

The EM MWD tool is a wireless MWD System which utilizes low frequency current-loop signals to communicate data to the surface.

 

Mud Pulse Systems

Mud pulse tools operate by either opening or closing a valve in the tool that creates either a pressure surge (positive pulse) or drop (negative pulse). Mud pulse systems are a reliable transmission method.

 

Gamma

Gamma ray sensors measure the natural radioactive emissions from isotopes of potassium and the uranium and thorium series contained in, or absorbed into the mineral components of surface rocks.

 

Resistivity

The symmetrical, performance-enhancing design of the Resistivity system and the centrally located antennas provide real-time compensation eliminating invasion effects due to measurement delays, and improve accuracy through cancellation of variations in receiver channels. The Resistivity system is effective in all mud types and provides a range of transmission formats. High resolution data can be stored downhole, retrieved and processed as required.

 

Engineering & Well Planning  

The RichTerra Directional Engineering and Well Planning team's main goal is to build the most cost effective and reliable wells. Our focus is to satisfy, in the best way possible, our customer’s needs. RichTerra Directional’s drilling engineering team has the expertise, experience, technology (software) and knowledge to design the most optimum well trajectories, taking into consideration all operational and government constraints. Our engineering and well planning team can assist with:

  • Wellbore Trajectory Design
  • Bottom Hole Assembly ("BHA") Analysis
  • Torque and Drag Analysis
  • Hydraulics
  • Surface Location Optimization Placement

 

Completion & Production Tesing Services 

We have been recognized as an authority in completion services based on our level of experience, integrated communications, quality service, commitment to safety combined with our depth of equipment and the services we provide.

RichTerra Directional owns an extensive line of test equipment with a variety of different volume sizes and pressure ratings. We pride ourselves on the ability to supply innovative equipment and highly skilled personnel for all completion services.

As a full service company, RichTerra Directional supplies complete test packages for the following operations:

  • Frac stimulation and recovery
  • Propane Frac Recovery
  • Inlines
  • Absolute open flows
  • Vapor recovery
  • Swabbing operations
  • Production tests
  • Multi-pad wells
  • Drillouts
  • Well clean-ups and work-overs
  • Abandonment operations
  • Bleed-offs

 

We offer comprehensive production tests which provide accurate and invaluable data utilized in analyzing the formation for future considerations such as facility sizing, pipelines, overall well performance and life expectancy. For our recent brochure on Completions and productions testing, please download it here.

 

RichTerra Directional is committed to providing industry leading equipment, quality, performance and safety. This commitment ensures that we are able to consistently provide our customers with reliable, cost efficient products and production optimization over the life of the well.

Our highly skilled production testing personnel conduct the supervised flow of a well while separating gases, fluids and solids. The flow data (pressures, rates, temperatures) collected provides a comprehensive view of the reservoir characteristics allowing operators evaluate the deliverability and sustainability of their assets.

Downhole Tools   

Quality Equipment

RichTerra Directional prides itself on providing equipment designed and built with quality, not cost, as the determining factor. Stringent QA/QC procedures combined with extensive personnel training ensure that the best product is put into the field.

Products and Services

  • Performance drilling mud motors
  • Hydraulic mechanical drilling jars: designed to combine the best features of conventional hydraulic and mechanically activated jars. To learn more,
  • Long and short shock tools: reduce drilling costs by extending bit life, increasing the rate of penetration and reducing drill string failures. To learn more,
  • String stabilizers and near bit stabilizers
  • Mud motor stabilizers and offset pads
  • Crossover subs
  • Floats, float subs, and protectors
  • Single shot kits
  • Slick and flex non-magnetic drill collars
  • Engineering and well planning services

 

Mud Motors

RichTerra Directional mud motors are maintained at our motor repair facilities in Calgary. We have instituted a comprehensive maintenance program which includes standardized job procedure manuals for the assembly and disassembly process.

RichTerra Directional is committed to providing the highest quality products available. Our service technicians use practical experience to assure this quality and are empowered to solve problems at every stage of the repair and maintenance cycle.

As part of our commitment to our customers, we only supply reliable and innovative equipment and mud motors. Our mud motors are specifically designed to accommodate the increased loads associated with newer higher performance power sections and has several advantages over previous generations of drilling mud motors, including:

  • Increased rate of penetration;

  • Upwards of double the torque capacity of conventional drilling motors;

  • Allows the customer to select more aggressive bits and drill with substantially higher weight of bit capacity;

  • Allows reduction in drill string rotary RPM thereby reducing wear on drillstring and casing;

  • Longer mud motor life due to rotor stator design;

  • Pressure balanced seal design;

  • If polycrystalline diamond compact "PDC" bits are to be run they depend on RPM to make hole, and performance mud motors are able to deliver the RPM to the bit;

  • Performance mud motors provide more effective control over deviation and doglegs;

  • Component tracking system.

 

Quality Control and Maintenance Program

RichTerra Directional’s downhole tools are maintained in Calgary, Alberta motor repair facilities. We have instituted a comprehensive maintenance program which includes standardized job procedure manuals for the assembly and disassembly process. As part of the comprehensive maintenance program, all tubular components are inspected for thread and fatigue damage, and magnetism. Each mud motor is then degaussed and placed on our dynamometer which additionally verifies the force and torque capabilities.

Our mud motor fleet is also monitored through our "Continuous Improvement Process which allows us to track individual components life history. This process provides us the ability to predict component life cycles and implement design modifications for continuous improvement and reliability.

 

Support

Experience breeds excellence and RichTerra Directional uses this experience to provide solutions to customers' drilling challenges 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every week. Our technical support personnel have the knowledge to assist you in selecting the right size, speed, and configuration of mud motors, jars, and shock tools for all your drilling requirements. This includes hot hole, invert, underbalanced, and performance drilling applications.